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Are Microplastics Bad For Your Health? More Rigorous Science is Needed(2025-03-10 15:00:09)

An anonymous reader shares a Nature story: In March last year, researchers found that among a group of nearly 300 participants, people who had higher concentrations of plastics in deposits of fat in their arteries (arterial plaques) were more likely to experience heart attacks or strokes, and more l...
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Zuckerberg's Meta Considered Sharing User Data with China, Whistleblower Alleges(2025-03-10 05:00:14)

The Washington Post reports: Meta was willing to go to extreme lengths to censor content and shut down political dissent in a failed attempt to win the approval of the Chinese Communist Party and bring Facebook to millions of internet users in China, according to a new whistleblower complaint from ...
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New Open Source Windows-Compatible Operating System Released(2025-03-10 00:00:04)

Red Hat product manager Pau Garcia Quiles (also long-time Slashdot reader paugq) spotted an interesting project on GitHub: Free95, a new lean, Windows-compatible operating system is available from GitHub. In its current form, it can run very basic Win32 GUI and console applications, but its devel...
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That Galaxy Next Door? It's Home to a Monster Black Hole(2025-03-09 20:00:30)

NPR reports on "a monster black hole that's been lurking unseen in the galaxy next door." This appears to be the closest supermassive black hole outside our Milky Way galaxy, according to a report that's appearing in The Astrophysical Journal... "Now that there is strong evidence that it should be ...
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Professor Ends Bulwer-Lytton Bad Writing Contest After 43 Years(2025-03-09 15:00:03)

Slashdot covered the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest in 2008 and 2010 — though it's been running since 1983. Entrants competed to write the worst-possible first sentence for a novel, in a contest started by English professor Scott E. Rice at San Jose State University (which sponsored the contest...
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